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Mar 1, 2014 · Others emphasized that the absence of remorse should never justify additional punishment because due process guarantees defendants the right to assert their innocence, and defendants cannot be expected to show remorse if they do not admit the crime.
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The indicators of remorse for some judges were the same as...
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Jul 22, 2021 · They contend that, in order to respect remorseful offenders, sentencing judges must reduce their sentences. Why they should do so, by how much they should do so, and whether they should do so when the individuals being sentenced are recidivists, are among the questions discussed.
- Richard L. Lippke
- rllippke@iu.edu
- 2021
This essay reviews the role that remorse does and ought to play in criminal justice. Evidence of remorse appears to influence decision-making in a number of stages of the criminal process.
Jun 10, 2016 · 15 Specifically, the committing offenses included: 41% for violent crimes against persons (e.g. murder, rape, robbery, assault), 26% for property crimes (e.g. arson, burglary, receiving stolen property), 10% for weapons, 4% for sex crimes, and 4% for other crimes (e.g. conspiracy, intimidation of a witness).
- Alex R. Piquero
- 2017
Remorse may be another such factor, as it is relevant only after crime seriousness and culpability have been established. 4 For this reason, remorse is generally referred to in the current sentencing guidelines as a ‘personal mitigating factor’: offender-relevant rather than offence-relevant.
Mar 16, 2015 · If an offender is genuinely remorseful about the crime she committed, should she receive some small-but-non-trivial mitigation of her sentence? – i.e. should she be punished a little bit less than she would have been had she not been remorseful?
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Jan 5, 2008 · That a criminal offender’s genuine remorse should be treated as a mitigating factor in sentencing is a well-settled legal principle in many if not virtually all jurisdictions. 1 For convenience, let us call this the ‘remorse principle’.
